{"id":317905,"date":"2025-08-04T19:17:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T19:17:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/317905\/"},"modified":"2025-08-04T19:17:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T19:17:11","slug":"lemmy-kilmister-reviewed-ozzy-osbournes-first-solo-album-in-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/317905\/","title":{"rendered":"Lemmy Kilmister reviewed Ozzy Osbourne\u2019s first solo album in 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"

In 2011, Ozzy Osbourne<\/a>\u2019s career-reviving solo debut Blizzard Of Ozz<\/a> received a belated 30th-anniversary re-release. The album was packaged with the Prince Of Darkness\u2019 1981 effort, Diary Of A Madman, for a reissue for the ages, stuffed to the gills with live footage, behind-the-scenes previews and remastered material.<\/p>\n

One of the bundle\u2019s most potentially intriguing features was left on a cutting room floor, however: a brief speech from Mot\u00f6rhead<\/a> leader Lemmy Kilmister giving his thoughts on Blizzard\u2026 and the touring around it.<\/p>\n

In the footage, thankfully preserved and later uploaded to YouTube, Lemmy reveals that he \u201cnever really got into Black Sabbath<\/a>\u201d, the band that Ozzy was fired from in 1979 and returned to in 1998. Yet, he calls Blizzard\u2026 a \u201cgreat\u201d album, and goes on to share stories from the time Mot\u00f6rhead supported Ozzy\u2019s solo band on a 1981 North American tour.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe got to see him play at least half of [Blizzard\u2026] every night,\u201d Lemmy says. \u201cIt was really good. Really good tour.\u201d<\/p>\n

He then talks about Randy Rhoads, Ozzy\u2019s first solo guitarist, who passed away aged only 25 in a 1982 plane crash.<\/p>\n

\u201cRandy Rhoads, although being a wonderful guitar player, could not play Asteroids for shit,\u201d Lemmy jokes, referring to the 1979 arcade game. \u201cI beat him right across this country, from East Coast to West and back.\u201d<\/p>\n

Getting a bit more serious, Lemmy continues: \u201cRandy was, like, just brilliant. Of course, he got better after he died, because everybody does. But I loved Randy. He took risks; he wasn\u2019t scared. He knew his instrument. He\u2019d just go for it \u2013 that\u2019s what I liked about him. Ozzy used to throw him around, throw him up on his shoulders while he was playing, and he never missed a note!\u201d<\/p>\n

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After touring together in 1981, Lemmy and Ozzy\u2019s paths would cross a few times, most notably when the Mot\u00f6rhead man wrote some songs for the Double-O\u2019s 1991 album No More Tears and his band supported him on the follow-up 1992 tour, No More Tours. Lemmy sadly died in December 2015, and Ozzy passed last month at the age of 76.<\/p>\n

Both men have received monuments in their hometowns: a statue of Lemmy was recently erected in Burslem, Stoke-On-Trent<\/a>, and there\u2019s a Black Sabbath Bench in central Birmingham, featuring the faces of Ozzy and Sabbath\u2019s other founding members. Ozzy\u2019s funeral procession passed the bench on the way to a private ceremony<\/a> on July 30.<\/p>\n

Watch Lemmy\u2019s complete reflection on Ozzy\u2019s Blizzard Of Ozz era below:<\/p>\n

Lemmy on Blizzard of Ozz – YouTube
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